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unusual facts about Fluid


Fluid

These properties are typically a function of their inability to support a shear stress in static equilibrium.


1991 in video gaming

Also one of the first games to use rotoscoping techniques to create cutscenes and fluid character animations since Prince of Persia.

A Rose for Mary

Attorney General Martha Coakley and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis announced the DNA test results proving Albert Henry DeSalvo was the source of seminal fluid recovered at the scene of Sullivan's 1964 murder.

Allenport, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

Allenport is the location of the Riverview Business Center, home of manufacturing facilities for Bonney Forge, FCI (formerly Berg), and Containment Solutions (formerly Fluid Containment).

Angel Ortiz

He became involved in a project financed mostly by Menarini Pharmaceuticals, aimed at the rationalization of the biochemical activity of a number of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) enzymes from different sources and, ultimately, at the design of novel inhibitors of human synovial fluid PLA2 tagged as anti-inflammatory agents.

Antimatter rocket

Antimatter rockets can be divided into three types: those that directly use the products of antimatter annihilation for propulsion, those that heat a working fluid which is then used for propulsion, and those that heat a working fluid to generate electricity for some form of electric spacecraft propulsion system.

Archie's law

The saturation exponent models the dependency on the presence of non-conductive fluid (hydrocarbons) in the pore-space, and is related to the wettability of the rock.

Blackside Dace

On August 2013, the U.S. Geological Survey released together with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a study which shows that after the spill of fracture-fluid a important number of fish and other water being, such as even the Blackside Dace, died.

Brake fluid

For example, most brake fluid sold in North America is classified by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) under its own ratings such as "DOT 3" and "DOT 4".

Ciliary body

Alpha-adrenergic agonists work by decreasing production of fluid and increasing drainage.

Dave Schildkraut

Schildkraut's playing was fluid and brilliant in pure bebop style: so much so that, during a blindfold test for Down Beat, Charles Mingus mistakenly identified him as Charlie Parker.

Dedham, Essex

Osborne Reynolds, (1842-1912), engineer and physicist, who developed the understanding of electricity, magnetism, and fluid flow (part of the equation for determining the change between 'streamline' and 'turbulent' flow is still called a 'Reynold's Number'), was the son of a headmaster of Dedham Grammar School.

DEXRON

The original Dexron fluid, like its predecessor Type-A/Suffix-A, used sperm whale oil as a friction modifier.

Dialysis

# Overload of fluid not expected to respond to treatment with diuretics

Electric Power Research Institute

The team was led by electric service provider Great River Energy of Maple Grove, Minnesota, and also included fluid bed dryer engineer Heyl & Patterson Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center and engineering construction contractor WorleyParsons.

Electric-field screening

In a fluid composed of electrically charged constituent particles, each pair of particles interact through the Coulomb force,

Fanning

Fanning friction factor, a dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations.

Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test

The CIE has determined some baseline values and experimental standards to be used in both editions of the test, others are fluid and merely require consistency from test to test.

Flow sensor

Hall effect sensors may also be used, on a flapper valve, or vane, to sense the position of the vane, as displaced by fluid flow.

Fluid Football

Fluid Football is a mobile association football game developed by independent studio Chromativity and published by AppyNation for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and BlackBerry devices.

Francis H. Harlow

He is known for his fundamental contributions to the development of several CFD algorithms for computer simulation of fluid flows, including Particle-In-Cell (PIC), Fluid-In-Cell (FLIC), and Marker-and-Cell (MAC) methods.

Gerald Brashear

Gerald’s solo is so incontestably in a class by itself, Eddie Jefferson and Jon Hendricks notwithstanding...Brashear weaves curlicue Lestoian solos with an appealing dry, woody tone, fluid, fleet phrasing, and spitfire tonguing.

Gianni Pedrizzetti

Pedrizzetti is a member of the European Society of Mechanics (EUROMECH), American Physical Society (APS), European Society of Cardiology – European Association of Echocardiography (ESC-EAE), ERCOFTACT Committee SIG 37 (Biological Fluid Mechanics) and Scientific Committee CIRHTA (Inter-University Consortium in Health Technology Assessment, Pisa, Italy).

Glomeris marginata

One to eight drops of a viscid fluid are secreted, containing quinazolinone alkaloids, dissolved in a watery protein matrix.

Gøsta Esping-Andersen

According to French sociologist, Georges Menahem, Esping-Andersen's "decommodification index" aggregates both qualitative and quantitative variables for ”sets of dimensions” which fluid, and pertain to three very different areas.

Great River Energy

The team also included fluid bed dryer engineer Heyl & Patterson Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center, the Electric Power Research Institute and engineering construction contractor WorleyParsons.

Helmholtz's theorems

G. K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press (1967, reprinted in 2000).

Highgrove Florilegium

Each sheet of paper was hand marbled separately using the traditional technique of sprinkling the colours onto a viscous fluid prepared from Carragheen moss and manipulating a pattern in the paint using a stylus.

J. N. Reddy

He has made significant seminal contributions in the specific areas of finite element method, plate theory, solid mechanics, variational methods, mechanics of composites, functionally graded materials, fracture mechanics, plasticity, biomechanics, classical and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and applied functional analysis.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

John Peter Smith Hospital

Fetus also had fluid building up inside the skull (Hydrocephalus) and possibly had a heart problem.

Laplace's law

Young–Laplace equation, describing pressure difference over an interface in fluid mechanics.

Lighter

It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame.

Lotte Herrlich

Alessandro Bertolotti wrote: "The cover of the second volumes shows a boy and two girls, hand in hand and dancing a joyful farandole, suggesting - by fluid, undulating outlines similar to those of the bacchic dancers of Jugendstil - the ideal of a fraternal friendship in perfect accord with German sensibility".

Lubiprostone

Lubiprostone is a bicyclic fatty acid derived from prostaglandin E1 that acts by specifically activating ClC-2 chloride channels on the apical aspect of gastrointestinal epithelial cells, producing a chloride-rich fluid secretion.

Magnetorotational instability

In addition to hydrodynamical forces such as pressure and gravity, an element of magnetized fluid also feels the Lorentz force \boldsymbol J\times\boldsymbol B\ , where \boldsymbol J is the current density and \boldsymbol B is the magnetic field vector.

Microbotics

Microrobots are also now using biological motors as power sources, such as flagellated Serratia marcescens, to draw chemical power from the surrounding fluid to actuate the robotic device.

Pery Burge

April 2012, Pery Burge and Tullio DeSantis have collaborated on multimedia projects that involved narrative readings, music by Tullio and visual fluid imagery created by Pery Burge.

Plasma diagnostics

The model for the plasma bulk is based on 2d-fluid model (zero and first order moments of Boltzmann equation) and the full set of the Maxwellian equations leading to the Helmholtz equation for the magnetic field.

Polyurethane laminate

This laminated fabric is useful as a wind and/or water barrier in the construction of fluid-splash protecting garments, shower curtains, outerwear clothing, however it is primarily used for making cloth nappies / diapers and cloth menstrual pads.

Post viral cerebellar ataxia

A more complicated test that is performed for research analysis of the disease is to isolate viruses from the CSF (Cerebrospinal Fluid).

SCLS

Capillary leak syndrome a rare medical condition where the number and size of the pores in the capillaries are increased which leads to a leakage of fluid from the blood to the interstitial fluid, resulting in dangerously low blood pressure hypotension, edema and multiple organ failiure due to limited perfusion

Shock capturing method

Tannehill, J. C., Anderson, D. A., and Pletcher, R. H., "Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer", 2nd ed.

Shollar water

Azerbaijan imports bottled drinking water from other nations such as Iran, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, but the country actually has enough domestic water sources to avoid importing water, according to Parviz Moin, an Iranian fluid dynamicist.

Static stability

Static stability (also called hydrostatic stability or vertical stability) — the ability of a fluid at rest to become turbulent or laminar due to the effects of buoyancy.

Step-by-step description of hemodialysis

It will put pressure on the tubing, and the pressure point will roll around through the 270 degrees, forcing the fluid to move (see also Peristaltic pump).

Stokes boundary layer

Harmonic motion, parallel to a plane rigid plate, will result in the fluid near the plate being dragged with the plate, due to the viscous shear stresses.

SU2

Stanford University Unstructured an open-source computational fluid dynamics solver

TROX-1

Unlike ziconotide, TROX-1 is not so selective, and also blocks the intrathecally, by injection into the spinal fluid.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Born in Christiania, Bjerknes enjoyed an early exposure to fluid dynamics, as assistant to his father, Carl Anton Bjerknes, who had discovered by mathematical analysis the apparent actions at a distance between pulsating and oscillating bodies in a fluid, and their analogy with the electric and magnetic actions at a distance.


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